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that apple." They called the crab apples cranberries. They 

 had never seen an apple outside of the market, possibly, and 

 some of them had never tasted one. Their eyes glowed, and 

 our president got some extra smiles for extra apples. 



In this view we see the pump that was won by one of your 

 townsmen here, Mr. Herrick, for his display of excellent fruit, 

 and beside it Mr. Herrick's box of fruit that took the grand 

 sweepstake. And I \^ish to say that Oxford County won many 

 prize laurels. The fifty dollar premium offered by the state 

 grange was won by Oxford County, and Mr. Herrick of your 

 county brought home many dollars besides this machine, a hun- 

 dred and thirty-five dollar machine, donated by the Douglass 

 Company. 



He would have had the one hundred dollar premium on his 

 barrel, but it lay between a barrel of Gravensteins and a barrel 

 of Mcintosh Reds, and the committee decided in favor of the 

 Mcintosh Red, claiming that was a better commercial variety. 



We have a view here of the sweepstake box and the barrel. 



This view shows the Maine bank, 333 boxes in one bank of 

 Maine fruit, Mr. Cummings, of West Paris, having a block in 

 there of one hundred, and the secretary of your association 

 another block and so on. Mr. Morse and several others who are 

 present are represented there. 



This was the cider press that was run day and night. The 

 product was called apple juice, five cents a glass. This was 

 made from the apples contributed by the secretary of the asso- 

 ciation and others who furnished apples for the undertaking. 



We now see the exhibit that won the governor's cup. You 

 notice the cup is sitting on a barrel of apples. That was for 

 the best barrel of Baldwin apples and it was an elegant display. 

 There should have been a display from every New England 

 state, but this was the only one. 



The next slide shows another plate of Baldwins that took 

 the blue ribbon, the first prize on Baldwins. It gives you only 

 a slight idea of what the apples really were. 



This shows one section in room "F," so called, where the 

 state exhibits were displayed, and also the grange exhibits. The 

 one on the upper shelf you will see is marked "Class F." The 

 display of twelve plates on the upper one was the one that took 

 the $100 cash premium for the best grange exhibit, by Worcester 

 Grangfe. 



